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Friday, September 24, 2010

Click click click goes the typewriter

When I was a little girl my mom had the most beautiful typewriter. It is was a turquoisey-blue color. Just like the one here on flickr. I had fun typing little stories using both the black and red ink. Winding the ribbon and getting ink on my fingers.

In high school I took two years of "typing"...and it was on both manual and electric typewriters. It makes me feel SO OLD to think that they still had MANUAL typewriters when I was in high school! Of course all this learning to type was intended for use on typewriters,. Boy did I luck out that I can use those skills I learned on that old dinosaur for my computer now! I can type like the wind thanks to all those "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" exercises.

Oh how I hated my typing class my parents made me and my sister take. We had one electric typewriter and one manual one and we had to swap every week. I was 15 and we learned how to type up official looking letter, and I had to remember how wide the border had to be, and where the return address had to be and all those annoying little rules.. But like you, I can now type without looking at the screen, and my quick brown fox can jump over twenty lazy dogs at a time.